A Quote by Elise Broach

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

Elise Broach

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Elise Broach
American - Writer
Born: September 20, 1963

If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?

Clyde Bruckman

There are no real coincidences in life for those with faith strong enough to recognize coincidences for what they really are: intricate pieces of the providential design God created for each of our lives.

Delia Parr

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

All coincidences are Odd. That's what makes them coincidences.

A. Lee Martinez

My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

Charles Fort

There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

Edgar Allan Poe

it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.

Milan Kundera

People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

Paolo Giordano

People talk about things happening and it being "unbelievable," and it's exactly the reverse. It's really believable, but we are so conditioned to believe that these kinds of things are just coincidences, that they're just things that show up arbitrarily in our lives, when the fact is that all of us have this kind of guidance available to us.

Wayne Dyer

What I really believe is that there are no coincidences anymore.

Ryan McGinley

There are no coincidences. Just miracles by the boatload.

Clare Vanderpool

Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

Dick Cavett

There aren't any coincidences. I think things really happen for a reason.

Patty Smyth

I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.